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  Re: Good Pointers
  By: Digital Man to Mortar on Sun Jan 18 2026 19:19:50

 > Except that messages are imported or sorted by "written date".

If that were the case, then I shouldn't be seeing msgs. from 2020.  This seems
to be a contradiction to...

 >> Message pointers determine what message you'll see in a new-scan based
 >> on their *import* date/time, not the date/time they were supposedly
 >> written (which is the date/time shown in the message header to users).

In any case how they're imported is irrelevent from a users' perspective.  It's
how it can be manipulated once there that's important.

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